Paintball Airtanks

The Basics of Paintball Airtanks

Paintball is quite a popular sport, participated by over 10 million paintball players in the United States alone. Basically, it is a highly equipment dependent sport, with a very simple underlying premise.

The principle of elimination stands as the underlying base of a paintball game. Paintball players are tasked to eliminate opposing paintball players by marking them with paintballs, thus eliminating them out of play. As a sport a number of variations persist in paintball, with the most common of which including “eliminating a specific player or the general of the opposing team” or “capturing the flag of the opposing team.

Paintball Compressed air guns are among the most basic of equipment in a paintball game, with paintballs being next, followed by safety paintball equipment like paintball goggles and paintball masks.

Paintball Compressed Airtanks stand as the “power” behind paintball guns, and are often referred to as High Pressure, Nitro and Compressed Airtanks. These terms basically represent the line of Compressed Airtanks which stand as an alternative to CO2 powered paintball guns.

Capacity of Paintball Gun Airtanks

Paintball Gun Airtanks come in various maximum filling pressure as well as capacities. High Pressure bottles/airtanks’ capacities are stated in cubic inches, with the maximum filling pressure measured in pounds per square inch. Basically, the greater the capacity, the increased shots for a paintball gun, taken from the power from paintball airtanks.

Paintball Gun Airtanks Construction

The most basic of these bottles are made of steel, simply due to the high pressures these airtanks are tasked to hold. As the weight of these airtanks would greatly affect a paintball player’s game, some more “advanced” of these airtanks are made of aluminum wrapped in carbon fiber material. Naturally, these class of airtanks are more expensive to the heavier steel made airtanks.

Airtank Valves

Most paintball airtanks apply two classes of valves in airtank bottles. The standard class of regulators gives players the option of adjusting the pressure which goes into a paintball gun. These require another hardware, which is basically a cradle which attaches the paintball gun, a number of elbows and hoses. The other class, which are High Pressure Pin Valves, perform in the similar way to that of a CO2 bottle airtanks, which means no extra hardware is needed in attaching paintball airtanks to paintball guns. The pressure amount value is typically preset, calibrated to what is required in the majority of paintball guns.

So there you have it, the basics of paintball gun airtanks.